DPI Podcasts

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Jan 12, 2022

In the January 2022 episode of *Discussions with DPIC*, Contra Costa County, California District Attorney Diana Becton, speaks with Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham about the rise in reform pros­e­cu­tors across the coun­try, the inher­ent flaws in cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment that leads her to work along­side oth­er reform pros­e­cu­tors to end the death penal­ty, and her efforts as dis­trict attor­ney to bring fair­ness and equi­ty to the criminal legal…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Dec 02, 2021

In the December 2021 episode of *Discussions with DPIC,* Death Penalty Information Center Deputy Director Ngozi Ndulue inter­views State Representative Jean Schmidt about her work as a pri­ma­ry spon­sor of a bill in the Ohio House of Representatives that would abol­ish cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment in the state. A long-time Republican elect­ed offi­cial, Rep. Schmidt also served in the U.S. House of Representatives for ten years. She avid­ly sup­port­ed the death penal­ty ear­ly in her career but…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Nov 08, 2021

In the November 2021 episode of *Discussions with DPIC*, Daniel Chen, coun­sel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, speaks with DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham about the Supreme Court case *Ramirez v. Collier* and death-row pris­on­ers’ rights to reli­gious free­dom. John Ramirez has chal­lenged Texas’ restric­tions on audi­ble prayer and phys­i­cal touch by his spir­i­tu­al advi­sor dur­ing his exe­cu­tion. Allowing such pas­toral com­fort in the exe­cu­tion cham­ber, Chen says,…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Sep 29, 2021

In the September 2021 episode of *Discussions With DPIC,* University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill polit­i­cal sci­en­tist Frank Baumgartner (pic­tured), one of the nation’s lead­ing aca­d­e­m­ic author­i­ties on the death penal­ty, joins Death Penalty Information Center Executive Director Robert Dunham to dis­cuss what research has shown about the impact of race, gen­der, and geog­ra­phy in cap­i­tal cas­es and the cur­rent his­tor­i­cal­ly low lev­el of pub­lic sup­port for capital…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Aug 26, 2021

In the third episode of the ***Discussions with DPIC*** podcast’s *Rethinking Public Safety* series, **Miriam Krinsky** speaks with DPIC Senior Director of Research and Special Projects Ngozi Ndulue about her expe­ri­ences as a for­mer fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tor and the Executive Director of Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP), a net­work of elect­ed pros­e­cu­tors devot­ed to pro­mot­ing fair­ness, equi­ty, com­pas­sion, and fis­cal respon­si­bil­i­ty in the crim­i­nal legal sys­tem. Krinsky and…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Jul 26, 2021

The July 2021 episode of ***Discussions with DPIC*** fea­tures a con­ver­sa­tion between DPIC Executive Director Robert Dunham and **Marc Bookman**, the co-founder and Executive Director of the **Atlantic Center for Capital Representation (ACCR),** regard­ing his crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed new book, *A Descending Spiral: Exposing the Death Penalty in 12 Essays.* Bookman and Dunham explore a wide range of sys­temic death-penal­­ty prob­lems addressed in the book, which was released in May 2021.

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Jun 01, 2021

In the sec­ond episode of DPIC’s *Rethinking Public Safety* series, DPIC Managing Director Anne Holsinger inter­views Dr. Karen Gedney about her 30-year career as a doc­tor in the Nevada prison sys­tem. Dr. Gedney speaks about how prison con­di­tions affect the phys­i­cal and men­tal health of pris­on­ers, how prison bureau­cra­cy deter­mines the qual­i­ty of care that pris­on­ers receive, and how exe­cu­tions take a toll on prison staff. She tells the sto­ry of her refusal to write a…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Apr 29, 2021

The April 2021 episode of *Discussions with DPIC* fea­tures the first episode of DPIC’s new pod­cast series, *Rethinking Public Safety*. These episodes will fea­ture inter­views with pub­lic safe­ty offi­cials, dis­cussing the evo­lu­tion of their views on cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment and how their expe­ri­ences in var­i­ous pub­lic safe­ty fields influ­enced their think­ing. The first episode is a con­ver­sa­tion between for­mer Ohio Attorney General Jim Petro and DPIC Senior Director of Research…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Mar 31, 2021

In the March 31, 2021 pod­cast episode of *Discussions with DPIC,* man­ag­ing direc­tor of DPIC, Anne Holsinger, and **Raphael Sperry**, pres­i­dent of **Architects/​Designers/​Planners for Social Responsibility** (ADPSR), dis­cuss the **American Institute of Architects’** (AIA) new ethics pol­i­cy pro­hibit­ing mem­bers from design­ing exe­cu­tion cham­bers and death-row soli­tary con­fine­ment cells.​“Architects have been com­plic­it in human rights abuse by designing execution…

12:01 The Death Penalty in Context

Published: Mar 09, 2021

In the March 2021 edi­tion of *Discussions with DPIC*, Death Penalty Information Center Senior Director of Research and Special Projects **Ngozi Ndulue** is joined by **Carine Williams** — the Chief Program Strategy Officer at the Innocence Project — for a con­ver­sa­tion about inno­cence, the death penal­ty, and​“the func­tion of free­dom.” Reflecting on the gross mis­car­riage of jus­tice exhib­it­ed in wrong­ful con­vic­tions and exon­er­a­tions, Williams stress­es two critical themes:…